APPENDIX II 



FOOD AND EQUIPMENT 



Many friends having complained that no information is to be found in 

 ''Beyond Petsora Eastward" on the subject of stores and other necessaries, I 

 propose to give a list of the things taken with us in 1901. 



Individual tastes vary so much that the list of food will only be a guide as to 

 quantities generally. Many of the items were doubtless unnecessary luxuries ; 

 but as much of our time was spent on the steamer we were not obliged to limit 

 the weight of stores as we should have been for an overland journey ; and I 

 am sure that a good variety of food conduces to health. 



LIST OF FOOD, ETC., USED BY TWO PERSONS IN 

 SEVEN WEEKS. 



3 Salmon (bought from the natives at 



Lutni). 

 5 Plum puddings. 

 I J Boxes of potatoes (from the Canary 

 Islands).^ 

 J Bag of onions. 

 2 Irish hams= 23 J lbs. 

 Bacon 15 J lbs. 

 21 Glasses of mutton cutlets, roast 

 fowl, beef, &,c.^ 

 5 Tins camp pie. 



I Tin pressed beef. 



12 



5 

 II 



34 

 16 



,, Oxford sausages. 



,, lobster (Lazenby's flat tins 



with blue label).^ 

 „ sardines. 

 ,, potted beef, game, (fee. 



(Moir's).'^ 

 ,, (i lb.) soups, 



mock turtle, &c.^ 



„ (lib.) T< 

 OUS.^ 



thick ox-tail, 



soups, vari- 



1 Potatoes must be thoroughly ripe to travel well through the summer. 



2 The most satisfactory form of preserved meat I have yet met with. On an expedition 



where all food is tinned, meat is the most diflQcult problem. 

 ^ Good tinned lobster is a very sustaining food. 



4 Useful for lunch on biscuits. 



5 Nothing equals a basin of good soup after a long tramp over bogs and tundra. A 



I lb. tin will make enough for three persons. Add water in proportion. All these 

 soups should be boiled about five minutes. 

 ^ Improved by two teaspoonsful of taureau. 



